Dreigroschenoper, Die (1962)

The German language runs many words together that English does not. Dre is 3. Igoschen is penny. Oper is Opera. The writing, directing and acting credits on this page are from the Internet Movie Database. Highlighted names are Mark Fuhrman bell-ringers. Of the 27 people listed in the cast only 6 do not have Fuhrman bell-ringers attached to them.

Hilde is the name Fuhrman "invented" for a character in his Murder in Greenwich movie.  Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh shares Mark Fuhrman's birthday. The combination of "Walter" and "Neff" gives you one of Fuhrman's neckties on Fred McMurray as Walter Neff in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity. The combination of George and Peach gives you Ty Cobb, the Georgia Peach, of the Detroit Tigers and the movie version of Cobb with Tommy Lee Jones as Ty Cobb. In Fuhrman's Murder in Greenwich book he writes that Martha Moxley had two cats, one name Junior and the other Tiger. In his movie he shows her in a photo album holding a striped cat. Lucy is another name Fuhrman "invented" for his Murder in Greenwich movie. So is Robert. Jo and OJ  come from a short list of reversible two-letter bell-ringers. Hans Baur was Adolph Hitler's personal pilot. Nicole Brown Simpson's maiden name was Baur. June is the month that she and Ron Goldman were murdered. In A Simple Act of Murder, Fuhrman made forced references to Jacqueline Kennedy's bloody gloves. In his Murder in Greenwich movie he calld the Skakel's "Kennedys" because of their blood relationship to Robert Kennedy's wife Ethel. Ritchie is a prosecutor in a Twilight Zone episode with multiple Fuhrman bell-ringers. --Jasper

 
Directed by
Wolfgang Staudte    
 
Writing credits
Wolfgang Staudte   (screenplay) &
Günther Weisenborn   (screenplay)

 
John Gay   (inspired by The Beggar's Opera)

 
Bertolt Brecht   opera The Threepenny Opera

 
Cast (in credits order)
Curd Jürgens ... Macheath
Hildegard Knef ... Jenny Diver (as Hildegarde Neff)
Gert Fröbe ... J.J. Peachum
Hilde Hildebrand ... Mrs. Celia Peachum
June Ritchie ... Polly Peachum
Lino Ventura ... Tiger Brown
Marlene Warrlich ... Lucy
Walter Giller ... Beggar Filch
Hans W. Hamacher ... Smith
Henning Schlüter ... Rev. Kimball
Hans Reiser ... A Guide
Siegfried Wischnewski ... Matthias
Walter Feuchtenberg ... Jakob
Stanislav Ledinek ... Robert
Martin Berliner ... Wally the Weeper
Max Strassberg    
Stefan Wigger    
Robert Manuel ... Un bourreau
Jürgen Feindt ... Un bourreau
Adeline Wagner ... Susy
Erna Haffner ... Une prostitute
Clessia Wade ... Une prostitute
Jacqueline Pierreux ... Prostitutes

 
Sammy Davis Jr. ... Ballad Singer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
George S. Irving ... Macheath (singing voice) (uncredited)
Martha Schlamme ... Jenny Diver (singing voice) (uncredited)
Jo Wilder ... Polly Peachum (singing voice) (uncredited)